Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-14
BADGER NEWS.

which has bought some OF the Cornell
University timber lands in Wisconsin,
is looking for g. mill site and dock
frontage at Ashland. The cut for
neqt season is placed at 100000
feet.
A BRIDGE will be built across the in
let to Half Moon Lake, Shawtown,
Eau Claire County, to cost nearly
$4,000.
The Madison Street Railway and
the Common Council are in wrangle
as to which shall keep the street bed,
between the rails, in repair.
Upon the petition of Ephraim Mari
ner, George P. Lee and Helena M.
Wells, executors in the estate of Dan
lei L. Wells, of Milwaukee, Judge
Wlnslow issued an order on the 10th
in the circuit court, appointing Fred
er1ck Q. Winkler receiver for the busi-
ness of the Whitehill Sewing Machine
Company.
JAMES APPLEBY, OF Prairie du Chen,
has snake cucumber six feet long.
B. s. ROLLINS and wife, of Arena,
Iowa County, died from eating toad
stools mistaken for mushrooms. A
son was dangerously i'll, but will re-
cover.
ABOUT II O'Clock on the night of the
9th q collision occurred on the Green
Bay Road, at Marshland, in which
four cars loaded with coal and barrel
stock were badly wrecked and a
brakeman named Sawyer was so Sc
verely injured that he will die. The
conductor of the night freight train
out at La Crosse had orders on arriv-
ing at Marshland not to wait for No.
5, as it was four hours late,
so he used the main track
for switching and left a piece of his
trtLiu out east of the depot. He had
finished switching and was about to
close up, when No. 5 came along at
full speed. The engineer reversed his
engine, but too late to prevent col
llslOn. Sawyer was caught in the
wreck. One of his legs was nearly cut
off and the other crushed. He leaves
a wife and one child.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company
has used "a, ZOO pounds of iron chain
this season in making and repairing
booms.
A FARMER in the city limits of Me-
nomonie has brought suit against
eighty-fve COW owners of that place
for damages doneto his crops by their
COWS.
The assessed valuation of the real
and personal property in Eau Claire
is SIS, 24O,677.
OF the thirty-fve patients in the
American Hospital at Eau Claire, if
teen have typhoid fever.
MANY grain stacks were blown down
on Truax Prairie, Eau Claire County,
by g. recent wind-storm.
The officers of the United States
land Office at Ashland have given it
as their opinion that the so-called in
demnity lands in the Ashland district
will not be restored to settlement.
They are now examining the records
in reference to this matter. They
claim that the lands have either been
already selected or are within the
plain limits OF the congressional grant.
THE register and receiver of the
United States land Office at Eau
Claire announce that the indemnity
withdraws ordered for the Wisconsin
Farm Mortgage Company, the Chica-
go, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Company and the Wisconsin Central,
will be open for filing an entry on and
after October l3, next, except such
lands as are exempted by the land
commissioners and the secretary of
the interior.
The earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore q Western Railroad for the
week ended September z, were $74,-
2O4, against $4,000 for the CORE
spending week in 1886-an increase of
$14, 6O4. The receipts from iron ore
were 500, 773 as compared with $780,
344 in 1886.
CURRIE BROS, florists, have leased
the extensive greenhouses connected
with the Mitchell residence on Grand
Avenue, Milwaukee. 1t is believed
that this foreshadows the sale of the
property, as Mrs. Mitchell will hereaf-
ter reside elsewhere and John l..
Mitchell has q magnificent residence in
the town of Greenfield, near the city
limits, where, it is said, he prefers to
reside.
The La Crosse County Agricultural,
Horticultural and Dairymen's Asso-
citation has been organized.
In the United States court at Madi-
son, Albert King, for taking liquor
onto an Indian reservation, was sen.
fenced to sixty days Imprisonment;
Frank La Chapela, for selling liquor
to Indians, was fined 500 and given
Is days Imprisonment, and Robert
Stitt, for sending obscene matter
through the mails, was fined 500.
AWARDS have been made to the
heirs OF those killed by the fall of the
wing Of the capitol in November, 1888.
The law required that no award ex-
coed $4,000, and that all expense of
care by the state be deducted. Awards
were made to the heirs of w. G. Jones,
of Milwaukee, $1,953; of Michael
Zwank, of Madison, ST., 923; of James
Kelley, of Madison, ST, 900; of William
Edgar, of Madison, $638; of Bernard
Higgins, $1,865. James Dowell left
neither wife nor child, and the expense
incurred for him by the state was
equal to the full award.